If you could make your pet understand one thing, what would it be? I would want Wallace to understand that he has a pretty good life! Waited on hand and foot, he leads a pampered existence. Here he is relaxing… Read More ›
Animals
Kidney Dissection!
Amazing detail in dissected kidneys. Along the renal pelvis to a myriad of collecting ducts coming out of the renal medulla.
Parasite of the Blue Dasher
It started with a dropped mite. Literally, a mite dropped onto the book I was reading. Dropped from where I quickly asked? From the dragonfly that had briefly landed on my book. I identified the dragonfly as a Blue Dasher… Read More ›
Bird Courses
I highly recommend the online Ornithology courses that Cornell University offers through the Bird Academy. The courses are very well laid out and can be taken at your own speed. I am in it the midst of two — a… Read More ›
Research at the Wet Collection
One of the most fascinating exhibits, that also serves as a functioning research room, is the Wet Collection of the Museum fur Naturkinde, in Berlin, Germany. This room is huge housing thousands of bottled specimens of preserved animals from around… Read More ›
Dragonfly
A juvenile Slaty Skimmer?
Fox Down the Lane
Small baby fox along Birch Point Lane, South Frontenac Township. What did the fox say?
Cooper’s Hawk feeding in my yard
After a long weekend up at the cottage, immersed in the beautiful natural setting of Frontenac Park and North Otter Lake, I came home to Toronto to find this immature Cooper’s Hawk eating a mouse or chipmunk in a tree… Read More ›
Out for Turkey!
Geared up and ready for the road trip to Autumn Olive hunt camp near Dutton. It had been very wet; so much so that it delayed the trip by a day and shortened it by the same. I had only… Read More ›
Walden Ponderings 